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  1. M

    dripping drain off on vented central heating

    If a drain off valve is leaking on a vented central heating system, due to not shutting off. As the washer has perished. Has anyone had success in swapping the inners over in this without draining down, if quick?
  2. M

    Push fit fitting to connect on to 1/2 copper

    Is it ok to use push fit connections on old 1/2 copper. I know you need adaptors for 3/4 to 22mm. Thanks
  3. M

    Average hourly rate for a gas safe plumber

    At present what is seen as the average or decent rate for a gas safe plumber employed be someone?
  4. M

    Rothenberger plasticut waste cutter or pipe shears?

    I have always used to pipe shears that you squeeze down and twist the pipe to cut. However I am thinking of buying the rothenberger plasticut waste cutters. What do people find the best?
  5. M

    Plastic cold water pipe distance from mains electrical cable

    Is there a required distance that a plastic cold water pipe needs to be from a mains electrical cable. Is an armored cable.
  6. M

    installing drinking water fountain, double check valve?

    I have a drinking water fountain to fit, Is a double check valve needed on the supply? Also are they usually piped up in the small bore plastic I have seen them fit with before presuming this comes with it?
  7. M

    Scrap copper prices to go up or down?

    Any thoughts on the current scrap copper prices? It seems to be falling again? Saw clean copper at 3.70 a kg. A few weeks back
  8. M

    Small leak on pushfit waste

    So pushfit waste fittings usually leak I'd there not pushed all the way in? Had one with a small leak on it but wasn't pushed all the way home. Pushing it fully in cured the small leak.
  9. M

    Single flow kitchen sink mixer tap

    If fitting a kitchen sink tap(single flow) were the water mixes in the tap body. If mains cold and gravity fed hot water. Do I need to put single check valves on both the hot and cold supply's to the sink?
  10. M

    Anyone recently completed*Plumbing and heating NVQ Level*3 with*gas

    Is there anyone on here that has recently completed there NVQ level 3 in plumbing and heating including gas training as one of your elements? I work for a new build firm with a gas safe plumber so can get enough gas evidence for installing and commissioning. Be it mainly combe boilers. I am...
  11. M

    Fixing large radiator to soft breeze wall

    How have people hung large rads before on the really soft spongy breeze they use to use on houses?
  12. M

    turing of gravity hot water

    Do most people tend to trust the gate valve on the cold feed to a hot water cylinder will turn off and back on again, when wanting to work on the hot pipework, swapping a bath tap no isos. Or turn the cold mains off and drain all tank.
  13. M

    Identifng pipe as cold water?

    I am pretty sure a pipe the comes out of a screed floor, (15mm with soldered cap on it) is a cold water pipe. However no way of totally chasing the pipe to see as it is not exposed. The situation is you can see two pipe drop down in the plaster of the wall. Then under the screed of the floor 2...
  14. M

    House with gate valve as stop tap then iso valve

    I have to do abet of work to do on a house that has lead coming in to a gate valve then an iso valve. The owner doesn't want to replace in mdpe. From boundary stop tap at the moment. So to isolate the houses water supply I have the iso valve or the boundary stop tap in the road. As the gate...
  15. M

    heat outpit of a 24kw boiler

    Can anyone help me with the heat output of a 24kw combi boiler. It says in the ideal manual Central heating (CH) output is fully modulating with a range of: 24 4.8 to 24.2kW (16,500 to 82,600 Btu/h) Does that sound right? Its for my NVQ Level 3 portfolio.
    • Mgrant
    • Thread
    • boiler heat
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Boilers
  16. M

    installing washing machine

    When installing a washing machine do you tighten the connections only hand tight or do you nip with grips?
  17. M

    How much to fit a washing machine?

    How much would most people charge to fit a washing machine. Just to connect one up after an old one had been removed?
  18. M

    quietest toilet fill valve

    What is the quietest toilet fill ,valve a torbeck of a fluidmaster pro400? House at momment has a fluidmaster in but has become very noisy making a humming sound when filling.
    • Mgrant
    • Thread
    • toilet valve
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Boilers
  19. M

    Bender hook digging in to pipe

    The hook on my Irvin Hilmor bender is slightly digging in to the pipe when pulling a bend. If I put insulation tape on the hook it stops this. Any one had this problem before?
  20. M

    rad valve

    Does the compression nut on a rad valve need to be all the way on to the rad tail? Or can it just be on just over the olives depth? Have one that the pipes are exiting the wall and are 5/10mm out
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